This is part of an ongoing series to help educate both consumers and trade professionals with real answers to every day challenges in the tile industry. Q: I bought this beautiful clear glass tile from a local dealer. My tile installer installed the material, but I can see lines behind it! I think it is the [...]
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We are pleased to announce our first Tile Education Series for 2012. We will be holding it at our headquarters in Plymouth, MN on March 22. Reps from Laticrete, Nuheat & Schluter will be on hand. Kate-Lo Tile & Stone reps will also be presenting products from FILA and Flextile. Join us, it will be [...]
This is part of an ongoing series to help educate both consumers and trade professionals with real answers to every day challenges in the tile industry. Q: My tile installer recently installed a brand new tile floor with in-floor heating. Now I notice my grout is blotchy and some tiles seem loose! HELP! A: Sorry [...]
My love affair with orange began many years ago. Being an Aries, I gravitate towards warm colors – red being, hands down, my favorite. But, orange spoke to me in a way that red did not. Evoking the same intensity as red, but infusing it with a jolt of energy, orange has become an old [...]
This is part of an ongoing series to help educate both consumers and trade professionals with real answers to every day challenges in the tile industry. Q: Several years ago I had a porcelain tile floor installed. About a year later, I noticed the tiles in the middle of the room starting to buckle. What [...]
Plymouth, MN, January 18, 2012: Olympia Tile & Stone USA, Inc. is proud to announce their expansion in the Wisconsin market with the asset acquisition of Lexco Tile & Supply, L.L.C., a tile distributor located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Lexco Tile & Supply has been serving the tile industry needs since 1970 as both a stocking [...]
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The Tuscan Leveling System™ is an innovative new two-piece (cap & strap) installation system that is revolutionizing the way the world installs large format porcelain and stone tiles. This innovative new system is designed to be used with tiles of uniform thickness (gauged tile).
We are happy to announce the arrival of a new line of traditional subway tile. Cristalli from Horus Art combines the classic shape of a subway tile, and pairs it with a closed crackled glaze to create a contemporary styled subway tile with the feel of another time period. This material is being stocked in [...]
We are please to announce the new Glass Tile Adhesive from LATICRETE®. A one-step, non-sag, polymer fortified adhesive mortar that is specifically formulated for use in glass tile applications. LATICRETE Glass Tile Adhesive has great workability and produces an ultra white finish that enhances the look of glass mosaics, glass tile, and most any translucent [...]